Published: 2022-05-23

From Afghanistan to Philippi, or about the research standards [Rev. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War, Baltimore 2019]

Michał Norbert Faszcza Logo ORCID
Section: Artykuły recenzyjne i recenzje
https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2022.22.01

Abstract

This review article deals with Steele Brand’s monograph devoted to the motivation of the Republican Roman soldiers in the context of the idea of citizen soldiery and civic militarism. From the reviewer’s perspective it is a starting point to illustrate a broader tendency, manifested in the gradual relegation of military issues to the margins of academic life, which is reflected in re-linking them with military institutions. Military academies were not established to conduct classical or even historical studies, and their primary goal is to educate officers, so this may lead to historiographical deformations resulting from ignorance of socio-cultural conditions.

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Faszcza, M. N. (2022). From Afghanistan to Philippi, or about the research standards [Rev. Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War, Baltimore 2019]. Wieki Stare I Nowe, 17(22), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2022.22.01

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Vol. 17 No. 22 (2022)
Published: 2022-12-28


ISSN: 1899-1556
eISSN: 2353-9739

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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